Shortages Index

The Shortage Index

Matteo Iacoviello, Dario Caldara, and David Yu construct a monthly news-based measure of shortages of industrial goods, energy, food, and labor, for the U.S. over the period 1900-present.

Download the paper (PDF).

Download the index (CSV).

Cite as: Caldara, Dario, Matteo Iacoviello, and David Yu (2024), “Measuring Shortages since 1900,” working paper.

(When using the data, we suggest referring to both the website and the date of download; e.g. “Data downloaded from https://www.matteoiacoviello.com/shortages.html on Month DD, YYYY”).

This webpage is maintained by David Yu, Dario Caldara, and Matteo Iacoviello.